Posted by
Dawnsblood on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:46:51 PM
Bryan, Curt and Michelle
are all heading to Iraq. She and Bryan plan a spell as embeds also. Wish them luck.
I spoke with Jordan by phone before Christmas to learn more details
of his offer, which I’m not going to get into for privacy and security
reasons. (He asked that his discussion be off the record.) I let him
know that I had received invitations to embed with the military and
planned to follow up on some of these offers concurrently with the
investigation of the AP’s reporting. Since our conversation, things
have moved at a fast pace on the embed side. Over the holidays, my Hot
Air colleague Bryan Preston and I received word that our embed
applications had been approved. We have been busy preparing our
families and ourselves for the journey. Our overarching goals are
two-fold:
1) to report on how the troops perceive mainstream media coverage of
the war (with a particular focus on the wire services relying on local
stringers); and
2) to report on progress and interaction between U.S. troops and Iraqi Army trainees.